The usual “supply chain sources” will soon ramp up their speculation, professional leakers may start receiving tips, schematics and even renders, while prototype benchmarking is already in full swing. Or so it seems, because it’s never easy to prove the legitimacy and accuracy of these pre-release performance tests.

The beefed-up results belong to an SM-G960F device that clearly follows in the footsteps of the SM-G950F, aka 5.8-inch “Infinity Display” Galaxy S8. This presumably unpolished Galaxy S9 is already capable of posting significantly higher scores than commercial S8, S8+ and Note 8 units, which sounds encouraging… and logical.

But there’s still a lot of ground to cover until rivaling the towering (synthetic) performance of Apple’s iPhone X or 8. More importantly (and worryingly), this Galaxy S9 version packs the same 4GB RAM as the recently benchmarked S9+, down from 6 gigs of the good stuff on the Note 8. Could Samsung be really going back to 4GB memory, with 6 gig configurations either non-existent or restricted to a handful of markets? Let’s hope not.

Adrian has had an insatiable passion for writing since he was in school and found himself writing philosophical essays about the meaning of life and the differences between light and dark beer. Later, he realized this was pretty much his only marketable skill, so he first created a personal blog (in Romanian) and then discovered his true calling, which is writing about all things tech (in English).